Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I further seek to ascertain whether it might be timely to visit again the manner in which all borrowers are being treated. There is a vast difference between those who refuse to make any payment and those who are struggling to make payments but are achieving reasonable results. Some lending institutions are surreptitiously offering the properties for sale under the counter. This is not obviously advertised and it puts the borrowers in a very sensitive position, especially at a time when approximately 30,000 borrowers, homeowners and small businesses are the subject of this conversation. I ask the Minister to ensure that the lenders actually do what they say they are doing.

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